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Timeline Of The Near Future

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1. The second full orbit of Neptune around the sun since its discovery in 1846.






2. The planetoid 90377 Sedna reaches perihelion.






3. 2016 Summer Olympics to be held in Rio de Janeiro.






4. Triple conjunction of Mars and Saturn.






5. The Voyager program is expected to terminate. Manned mission to the Moon by China.






6. Winter Olympics held in Sochi - Russia. 2014 FIFA World Cup held in Brazil. Expected time of completion for the World Trade Center site. The fifth report of the UN'sInternational Panel on Climate Change to be given.






7. The Message From Earth will reach Gliese 581.






8. The M1 Abrams will be retired from service.






9. The Green Wall of China is expected to be completed.






10. Transit of Venus on June 11.






11. Mercury occults Neptune.






12. The Green Wall of China is expected to be completed.






13. Solar eclipse of 7 min 29 s (very close to the theoretical maximum) - saros 139 - 'crowing' this serie. This is predicted to be the longest eclipse during the current 10000 year period - from 4000 BC to AD 6000 (eclipse predictions by Fred Espenak -






14. 'First Plutonian anniversary' of the dwarf planet's discovery - given that Pluto's orbit is just under 248 Earth years.






15. Solar eclipse of 7 min 26 s - saros 139.






16. March 17






17. Triple conjunction Mars






18. 'First Plutonian anniversary' of the dwarf planet's discovery - given that Pluto's orbit is just under 248 Earth years.






19. The One country - two systems model between China and Macau will expire.






20. On March 14 (which will be February 29 in the Julian calendar) - the difference between the Julian calendar and the Gregorian calendar reaches 14 days. Since 14 is divisible by 7 - this will be the first time in history since its inception that the G






21. Triple conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn.






22. There will be a Solar Eclipse on August 21.






23. Last year which can be represented using the File Allocation Table date format.






24. Year 2038 problem - similar to the Year 2000 problem may occur on this date.






25. Halley's Comet returns to the inner Solar System






26. Transit of Mercury.






27. On August 1 - Mercury occults Regulus (last occultation of Regulus by Mercury was on August 13 - 364 BC).






28. 2018 FIFA World Cup to be held in Russia. 2018 Winter Olympics to be held in Pyeongchang - South Korea.






29. Solar eclipse of 7 min 14 s - Solar Saros 139. Exceeding 7 minutes of totality - this will be the first time this has happened in 177 years; the last one occurred on June 30 - 1973. when the Concorde prototype followed the totality spot during 73 min






30. At 16-08 UTC on July 29 - Mercury will occult Mars.






31. Triple conjunction Mars






32. Triple conjunction Mars






33. On December 2 at 12-32 UTC Mars will occult Jupiter.






34. The 17th Pan-American Games to be held in Toronto. Spacecrafts New Horizons and Dawn to arrive at the dwarf planets Pluto and Ceres - respectively. Alignment of Earth - Venus and Jupiter. Rugby World Cup held in England and Wales. 2015 Cricket World






35. December 10






36. Triple conjunction Mars






37. 52 UTC - Venus will occult Saturn.






38. 2019 Rugby World Cup to be held in Japan. 2019 Cricket World Cup to be held in England.






39. Construction of Sagrada Familia to be completed.






40. On March 4 at 10-52 UTC - Venus will occult Uranus.






41. Two solar eclipses will occur in this year.






42. Return of Halley's Comet.






43. 52 UTC - Venus will occult Saturn.






44. Long-duration lunar eclipse of approximately 106.1 minutes.






45. The Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf (comprising Saudi Arabia - Oman - United Arab Emirates - Bahrain - Kuwait and Qatar) hope to establish monetary union in this year. FIFA Confederations Cup to be held in Brazil. 34th America's C






46. On March 4 at 10-52 UTC - Venus will occult Uranus.






47. At 15-28 UTC - on September 14 - Venus will eclipse Jupiter.






48. Asteroid 2007 VK184 has a chance of 1 in 3030 of hitting Earth in this year.






49. Information on the Falklands War declassified.






50. 2016 Summer Olympics to be held in Rio de Janeiro.